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When you have a selection of wonderful photographs, whether they have been taken by you, a member of your family, or found in a free photo gallery, you want to make the best of them in your scrap-booking.
Sometimes, a photo can be the highlight of a page, and can be the focal point, for example a photo of your child in the swimming pool, or your cousin's first baby in his pram.
Sometimes, however, you want the photo to act as a background to some other, more important things that you want to highlight.
You might have had a wonderful holiday, and have collected tickets, shells, napkins, beads, etc from your stay. A great idea is to scrap-book these against the background of one of your holiday shots.
I suggest that if you are using a photograph as a background, you print it out on matte paper. Shiny, heavy-duty photo paper can be rather overpowering, and will take over the page. Use a thin, matte paper and the photograph will make a great background.
If your photo has a lot of bright colors in it, you might want to tone it down by printing it out in draft quality. Try cropping a portion of it digitally and just print out this small test square to see how this looks. This will save you time and ink.
Photographs for backgrounds are best if they don't have too much happening in them. Ideally, they shouldn't have people in them unless you are going to tone them down. The human eye is drawn to human faces, and you will find that your background stands out too much for the other items on your page to be noticed. Use a photo package like Corel Paint of Photoshop to lighten the picture before printing.
You can also use Corel Paint or Photoshop to darken your photograph or to change the colors slightly. If you have a landscape photo, for example, you can enhance the blue or red shades within it so that it matches better with the embellishments you wan to add. For a fresh spring look, you might want to use a lot of acid green and bright yellow embellishments, for which you need a blue shaded background for highlighting them.
Using photographs is quite a specialist areas, and they don't suit all types of scrapbook paper. Try printing on lightly textured paper for a different look. Try printing your photos in sepia for an antique look. This is also great for helping your photo blend in as a background and not stand out as the main part of the page.
You can also use parts of your photograph as a background. For example, if you have a view of a lake you could digitally crop the photo to just include the ripples on the water. You could crop a woodland scene to just show the light falling through the trees. A beach scene could be cropped so that only the ripples at the ends of the water or the stones around a rock pool can be seen. Try out your ideas digitally before printing them out, and you'll get the best possibly look.
Use online photo galleries that allow you to use their photographs for free, but also try taking your own photos. You might find this leads you onto a whole new hobby!
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